Some IP stories you may have missed over the holiday period

Interesting intellectual property stories in the final two weeks of 2016 included an important New York ruling on pre-1972 sound recordings, Qualcomm being fined in Korea and making patent licence deals in China, the USTR revealing its 2016 Notorious Markets List, and two lawyers being indicted for an “elaborate scheme to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in copyright lawsuit settlements”

With many of our readers taking time off over the end-of-year period, you may have missed intellectual property stories that broke during that time. We round up some of the most interesting ones below.